Intern CONSPIRACY.—A Special Commission was held at Cork on Friday
the 23rd. by Mr. Baron Pennefather and N r. Justice Torrens, to try John Leary, James Roche, James Magrath, and William-Shine, for a conspiracy to murder George Bond Low, Michael Creagh, and Henry Evans, Esquires, Magistrates in the County of Cork. In that part of the country, secret councils have long been customary, at winch the doom of landlords or magistrates obnoxious to any of the members has been decided on ; and. Leary, a man of seventy years of age, of irreproachable character, and renting a farm at 220/ a year, seems to have been one of the heads of the association. It was his part to counsel deeds of blood, and to find in his associates instruments for their execution. Mr. Low as a massistrate, Mr. Creagh as a landlord, and Admiral Evans as an opponent of the Catholic claims, had been marked out for vengeance. The prisoners were found guilty and condemned to death.
The Commission was to proceed on Monday the `26t1) with the trial of seven- teen other persons, accused of the name crime.
The Special Commission resumed its sitting on Monday; and Edmund Con- nors, Patrick Lynch, Michael Wallis, and Timothy Barret, were put to the bar. The defence was conducted by Mr. O'Connell. The trial lasted thirteen hours. The Jury then deliberated for an hour and a half; and returned a verdict of ac- quittal for Timothy Barret; intimating to tine Judges, at the same thine, their inability to agree as to the other prisoners. Tine Court accordingly adjourned at two o'clock in the morning; and met again at nine ; when Mr. Justice Turrens, in order to dissipate their doubts, directed their attention to the mere strikin g points of the evidence. 'Fine Jury a second time retired; and by the Irish papers of this morning- we find, that as they were ultimately unable to agree, the Court has postponed the trial till next Assizes. The counsel for the Crowu wished to try the prisoners immediately by another Jury.
Nine of the Jury were for acquitting Connors, Lynch, and Barret ; one was for acquitting all the prisoners ; and this gentleman complained bitterly of the " ob stinacy" of his brother jur3onen.
Speculation is busy as to whether Government will carry into effect the sentence passed on the four conspirators on Friday, since the witnesses by whose evidence they were condemned, have in this latter trial been pronounced unworthy of credit.
The Bishop of Ferns has addressed a second letter to Lord Mountcashel, on the subject of the " lay synod" at Cork. He deprecates, as before, an appeal to the people on a subject so momentous as Church reform ; and alleges that the more appropriate course on the part of I.ord Mountcashel would have been, a correspondence, in the first instance, with the dignitaries of the Establishment, and ultimately, if necessary, an application to the King. The Bishop maintains that Church abuses are " under a rapid progress of correction ;' denies that there is a want of churches and Protestant clergymen to the extent assumed by Lord Mountcashel, or that the law as it exists is insufficient for the protection of curates in the bargains which rectors may drive with them ; vindicates the Bishops from the charge of impropriety in " running their lives against leases," the clergy generally from. the charges of avarice and immorality, and himself froM the imputation of having only the secular advantages of churchmen in view ; and augurs, as formerly, from the success of Lord Mountcashel's mea- sures, nothing but the overthrow of the Hierarchy, and the revival of the reign of Puritanism.
The landowners of ihe parish of Clogherney, in Monaghan, have published a declaration of their sentiinents on the subject of religious freedom. They recog- nize in every one a right to perfect liberty of conscience ; and recommend that past dissensions on the subject of religion be forgotten as soon as possible. The landowners of all sects in this parish amount to 1141; and of these only eleven have refused to sign the declaration.
The Rev. Mr. Goine_ of Tipperary was murdered on Friday week, within a few yards of his own house. The peasantry deemed him oppressive in enforcing the payment of tithes. Mr. Going was brother to Major Going, who was murdered pear Limerick in 1822. At Templemore, last week, Ryan, a schoolmaster, was fired at through his window, and severely wounded. In half an hour afterwards, his mother, who lived at a short distance from him, was shot dead. Nearly twenty persons were apprehended in Dublin last week, as accessories to the murder oh Thomas Hanlon the sawyer.
On Thursday last, Captain Byng was fined 21. by the Magistrates of College Street, Dublin, for the assault on Mr. Jacob.
A steam-boat was burned to the water's edge in Dublin harbour on Sunday last.
The editor of the Dublin Evening Mail has posted the proprietor of the Even- ing Packet, for refusing to grant inim " the satisfaction of a gentleman."
The Lord Mayor of Dublin, by the aid of the horse-police, has removed the fish-market from Pill-lane. The fish-dealers resisted the measure, as far as they could without using violence ; and they mean to challenge the Mayor's right to eject them, in a court of law. , Mr. Shell was entertained at dinner on Thursday week, by the freeholders who support him in the county of Louth. Dundalk was the place of meeting, and upwards of a hundred freeholders attended.
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